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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1981
Helicopters Could Remove Diseased Trees From Nation's Forests
THE WEEK IN CALIFORNIA ' . ,
Nixon's Trip, Cooper's Cancer,
Marriage Mixup Are Top News
By United Press International
former vice r resident
'Richard M. Nixon scheduled
an 11-day trip which will in
clude several speeches, among
;them three Republican fund
raising addresses. . '
I Nixon's Los Angeles office
eaid his trip would take him
.to his home in Washington
and to Greensville, S.C., for a
private ' dinner with James
Byrnes, former Secretary ' of
iState. ... ",-;
He was -to address a pub
lisher's dinner in New York,
then fly to Chicago to speak
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to a Republican citizens' rally.
His itinerary also included
Des Moines, Iowa; Detroit,
and Columbus, Ohio.
Nixon was scheduled to re
turn to the West Coast by way
of San Francisco, where he
will visit friends before re
turning . to . southern Califor
nia. -
In Hollywood, a veteran mo
tion picture actor lay gravely
ill with cancer . . . and anoth
er actor's ex-wife claimed he
had married again.
', Film Star Gary Cooper's
condition in his fight against
"advanced cancer" was re
ported to. have taken a turn
for the worse, giving his phy
sician and family reasons for
"grave concern.".,
Cooper's spirits were lifted
when he received a personal
message from Queen Elizabeth
offering her best wishes. Pres
ident Kennedy had talked to
him on the telephone. earlier.
In an announcement, Dr.
Rex. Kennamer. reported that
Cooper "has been greatly com
forted by the interest, good
wishes--and blessings' of his
friends :th r ou gh o il t r the
world.'? ... , . .
In Santa Monica,' Actress
Anna Kashfi said that her ex
husband Marlon Brando told
her he is. married to Mexican
Star Movita and is the father
:of a nine-months-old son.
"Marlon told me weeks ago
that he was secretly married
to Movita and that they had a
baby." Miss Kashfi said,
"He also asked for my help,
saying he was going to get a
divorce from her. Marlon
wanted to know if I would al
low his new baby to visit with
our son. Devi. I told him I
would have to think it over."
, Elsewhere, there were these
developments:
Roblllard: Alexander Robil-
lard, the first minor executed
in California in 17 years, died
in the San Quentln gas cham
ber for ' killing a policeman,
Roblllard, -20, was white-faced
but calm as he was led into
the green, eight-sided steel
and glass chamber after tell
ing warden Fred Dickson he
would try to die like a man.
Roblllard was convicted for
shooting patrolman Gene Do
ran of .Hillsborough, Calif.,
on Aug. 5. 1959,
Bomber: A nimble five foot,
six inch co-pilot was credited
with saving an $8 million B52
jet bomber. Officials at Beale
Morse Outlines Forest
Program Before Senate
Air - Force base near Marys
ville said that on a recent take
off the bomber s mam land
ing gear failed to go into nor
mal, retracted position. The
pilot feared the plane's mas
sive wheels would collapse if
he attempted to land. - Lit.
George D.: Helvie,"' 25,' Tur
lock, Calif., crawled into the
open wheel wells and inserted
safety lock pins to insure that
the - gears stayed in position
upon landing. Helvie worked
his way across the bomb bay
to reach the first wheel well
at a time when the plane was
traveling 200 mph at 1 8,000
feet; ' -.' '- H' 1 . ; '"
Sinclair: Mrs. Mary Craig
Sinclair,' 78, author and wife
of Pulitzer prize-winning nov
elist Upton Sinclair, died in
Pasadena of a heart ailment.
Mrs. Sinclair's book; ' "South
ern Belle: The Personal Story
of a Crusader's . Wife." was
published in 1957; 'Her hus
band ran unsuccessfully ! for
governor" of California ' in
1911. - - : ':
Cooley:1 Spade : Cooley; for
mer "King of Western Swing,"
was' arraigned in Bakersfield
on a murder indictment in the
death of his' wife, Ella. Mae,
35. The arraignment was con
tinued until May 10, the time
for Cooley to enter his plea.
Cooley's .- daughter, Melody,
14, had testified at a coroner's
inquest earlier that she saw
her father beat her mother
April 3. Mrs. Cooley died the
same day.
Traffic: "I never 4 want to
drive a car in California
again," pouted' traffic - ticket
king Herman Abrams when
sentenced in Los Angeles to
two years in jail. "I have news
for you," replied Municipal
Judge Byron J. Walters.
"You're not going to get a
chance to.". Abrams, 69-year-
old retired postal worker who
said he had been given some
430 traffic 1 citations .in 42
years of driving, was convict
ed by a jury of 13 violations
He also was fined $500.;.,
BIDS INVITED
Portland UPD . Invitations
for bids for the first construc
tion work in connection, with
the $72,300,000 Green Peter
and Foster Reservoirs Project
have been issued by the Port
land U.S. Army Engineer
District. The project is on
the Middle and South . San
tianv rivers. . ' -
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DIAL SP 3-7538
Sen. Wayne Morse Thurs
day outlined in the Senate a
program, which would pre
serve natural growing condi
tions yet allow removal of di
seased and selected trees from
the nation's forests.
The proposal, supported and
promoted by Glenn Jackson,
Medford, would utilize power
ful helicopters in removing
ripe timber from inaccessible
areas, or where the natural
beauty is of prime import
ance, such as national parks,
wilderness areas and camping
site areas. .
Plans are under way, ac
cording to Jackson, for the
nine-ton lifting capacity Si
korsky helicopter to be used
in, removing 167 overripe
trees in a mapped area of Ore
gon : Caves National monu
ment.
Conventional logging in an
area like Oregon caves Na
tional monument, he said
would be disastrous, "but se
lective logging by helicopter
preserves the area and re
duces the damage to less than
would be suffered from leav
ing the overripe timber to
stand there and rot.".
The Oregon Caves, opera
tion is an example of how
helicopters could be utilized.
"Removing the tree on a se
lective basis by helicopter
with no heavy equipment dis
turbing v ground conditions,
leaving a partial growing
stock on the ground, will aid
in the solution of the brush
problem, will ' reduce ' the
amount of land taken up by
road systems, eliminate, ero
sion; reduce silting of' our
streams, and eliminate some
of our flood control prob
lems," Jackson said.
In addition to this," he
added, "the multiple purpose
use of public lands envisions
a sizaeable increase in recrea
tional use. Certainly conven
tional logging methods do not
add to the aesthetic beauty or
use from a recreational stand
point. Lack of comparable
damage from logging opera
tions by helicopter will pre
serve much of this aesthetic
value.".
.Jackson, after watching a
helicopter demo nstration
more than a year ago, be
came convinced of the possi
bilities of using helicopters in
logging, and started studying
the idea to prove it was finan
cially sound.
He, conferred with - Carrol
Brown, supervisor, of Rogue.
River National forest,, about
the soundness of such a plan
financially.. The forest service
prepared two sets of figures
comparing helicopter logging
with conventional logging
methods. '
One set of figures was used
with the defense department
assuming the depreciation
costs of the helicopters, and
the other with the logging op
erations carrying depreciation
costs. The figures showed that
even with a $369.46 an hour
operation cost for the hell
copter, airborne logging
would cost $35.57 a thousand
board feet at the mill.
Conventional- logging, in
cluding road building as well
as slash disposal, figured out
to $35.47 a thousand board
feet at the mill. The heli
copter cost included bucking
and falling needed to com
plete the airborne operation.
Jackson said the Helicopter
cost was computed on a basis
of using the machines 1,000
hours a year. If this were in
creased to 1,500 hours, the
cost of logging by helicopter
would be reduced to $32.81 a
thousand board feet with the
defense department assuming
depreciation costs
In return for the defense
department's assumption of
depreciation costs, the depart
ment would have priority on
the helicopter's service for
tactical purposes when
needed.
. Jackson said he has been
concerned with the future of
the state's forests, and the
flood control and erosion prob
lems resulting from clear-cut,
side hill logging. ,
"The timber is there, much
of it going rotten, harboring
disease and creating fire or
snag hazards," he said. "The
only practical way of getting
it out is to lift it out by air."
Jackson pointed out that the
prime need is to preserve the
natural growing conditions.
Cat or high-lead logging
would be disastrous in many
of these areas, either by des
troying the aesthetic values,
creating brush growth prob
lems that stifle timber repro
duction or by setting off flood
control and erosion problems
that are costly to check," he
said.
Helicopters, he said, could
be used in fire control. "The
high lift helicopter is particu
larly important because of
the large quantity of water or
fire deterrent material which
can be delivered to the spe
cific spot , where it is re
quired," he said. .'
Jackson said he found that
the type helicopter desirable
for such work is already on
order. Two of them are for the
West German government
and a third would be avail
able for the experiment in
Oregon Caves National monument.
. Logging by helicopter may
start in the spring of 1962. A
preliminary agreement has
been reached between the
forest service, the defense de
partment and Siskorsky Heli
copter, and it Is planned to
have funds for the experiment
in the 1962 federal budget,
Two Are Injured ;
In Valley Accident
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ray
mond Withish, route 4,: box
471, Medford, were taken to
a local hospital Friday night
after their car failed to make
a curve near the intersection
of Griffin Creek and South
Stage rds,, according to state
police. , , ,
They were reported in good
condition Saturday. Whitish,
46, the driver, has possible
neck injuries, and his wife
and passenger, Minnie Whit
ish, 55, is being treated for
cuts and bruises.
Earlier Friday, minor dam
age occurred to two cars on
Highway 99 near Rogue River,
state police said.
A car driven ' by Elmer
Rocky Robison, 38, Roseburg,
attempted to pass a logging
truck as the car. ahead of it
driven by Wayman Pilcher,
38, routa-1,' box 416, Gold
Hill, started to make a-left
turn. ' '
White City Club
Views Slide Show
White City - Rafe L. An
ders of the Oregon state police
presented a program of col
ored slides and commentary
at a recent meeting of the
White City Fisherman's club.
Anders displayed a se
quence of slides from the nat
ural bridge on the Rogue river
to the Pacific ocean. Pictures
included the Rogue river at
flood waters, indicating the
damage that flood water can
do. ,
Also shown were scenes of
Crater lake, Miller lake, Odell
lake, Gold lake, Willow lake,
Squaw lake, Fish lake, and
other fishing spots in southern
Oregon. Included were pic
tures of deer, elk, bear, sheep,
and Kodiak bear in Alaska.
Members of the club ex
pressed their appreciation for
the officer's program, and not
ed that it was "an exception
ally fine gesture" for Anders
to contribute to the entertain
ment of the domiciliary fishermen.
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